Two-wheeled carriage



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Cab.

Patented 14, 1840.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JNO. PAGE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

TWO-WHEELED CARRIAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 1,789, dated September 14, 1840; Antedated August 12, 1840.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I,JoHN PAGE,of the city of New York, in the State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Iinproveinents in the manner of constructing that kind of a carriage usually denominated a cab,7 by which improvements a vehicle of this kind for holding two persons may ,be made considerably smalle-r than as ordinarily constructed, the carriage may be hung much lower or nearer the ground than heretofore, and the motion of the horse be less felt than is usual in carriages of this kind; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof.

In my cab, the axle is bent so as to form what is known undery the name of a crank axle, the part of it which'crosses from side to side of the carriage doing so either in front of, or behind, the body thereof; and, in either of its forms, it has the shafts at tached directly to it, and is connected with the body of the carriage through the intermedium of the springs which are sustained on the shafts, or on the bent axle.

Figure 1, in the accompanying drawing, is a perspective representation of my irnproved cab; a, b, c, being the bent, or crank axle, which is shown more distinctly in Fig. 5, which is a top view of the axle, and of the shafts CZ, d; the journal part of the axle is shown at e, e. The side portion, a, o, of the axle is to be att-ached to the shafts by means of bolts, or clips; and the shaft-s may be aflixed either above or below the sides of the axles. In these figures, the part of the axle c, c, which crosses from side to side of the carriage is placed in front of it. The springs f', j", may be of the platform, elliptical, or other kind; they are attached at their lower sides to the shafts, o-r to the axle, immediately above the journal part of the axle, and by their upper sides to the body of the carriage, as shown at g, g. Fig. 3, shows the manner in which I arrange the seats of my cab, in opposite corners thereof, e, c, being the floor, and d, (Z, (Z, the seats. rTo accommodate this manner of varranging the seats, I place the door on one side, at the back of the cab, asshown in Fig. 4, where b, iCs te door, hinged to the stationary part Having thus fully described the nature of my invention, and shown how I carry the saine into operation, what I claim therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The manner in which I have combined and arranged the bent axle, the shafts, the springs, and the body of the cab, or car riage, with each other, the bent axle being carried either in the front of or behind, the body, as herein set forth.

2. I also claim in combination therewith, the manner in whichI have arranged the seats and the door, by placing the former in opposite corners, and the latter on one side, as set forth; by which arrangement. two persons may be conveniently seated in a smaller space than could be accomplished under any other arrangement J. PAGE.

`Witnessesz Trios. l). JONES, L. E. BAoKUs. 

